2014 cars: Winners & losers

Caption2014 Audi RS7

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David Thomas: Winner The A7 is one of my favorite luxury cars as it is, and that's sans the 560-horsepower, twin-turbo V-8 that Audi has shoehorned into the RS 7. Visual tweaks like the "Quattro" script in the lower grille and beefed-up bumper are nice. The quilted leather treatment also speaks...

David Thomas: Winner The A7 is one of my favorite luxury cars as it is, and that's sans the 560-horsepower, twin-turbo V-8 that Audi has shoehorned into the RS 7. Visual tweaks like the "Quattro" script in the lower grille and beefed-up bumper are nice. The quilted leather treatment also speaks... (Evan Sears/ Cars.com photo)

Mike Hanley: Winner The RS 7 is blindingly quick ¿ Audi claims zero to 60 mph happens in less than 4 seconds ¿ and under the bright auto-show lights, the white one at the Audi stand was blinding, too. It's almost not fair that Audi has two performance lines, S and RS, to woo enthusiasts.

Mike Hanley: Winner The RS 7 is blindingly quick ¿ Audi claims zero to 60 mph happens in less than 4 seconds ¿ and under the bright auto-show lights, the white one at the Audi stand was blinding, too. It's almost not fair that Audi has two performance lines, S and RS, to woo enthusiasts. (Evan Sears/ Cars.com photo)

Joe Wiesenfelder: Winner What's not to like (if you can afford it)? The seats feel as good as they look. Mike's not kidding about being blinded. That was the most light my eyes had seen in four days of Midwestern winter. It literally hurt my eyes.

Joe Wiesenfelder: Winner What's not to like (if you can afford it)? The seats feel as good as they look. Mike's not kidding about being blinded. That was the most light my eyes had seen in four days of Midwestern winter. It literally hurt my eyes. (Evan Sears/ Cars.com photo)

Aaron Bragman: Winner Blinding is definitely the word to describe the RS 7. Blindingly quick, blindingly expensive and yes, blindingly white in this showcar example. They say that the measure of a good design is whether it looks good in white or not, and the RS7 unquestionably does. This is...

Aaron Bragman: Winner Blinding is definitely the word to describe the RS 7. Blindingly quick, blindingly expensive and yes, blindingly white in this showcar example. They say that the measure of a good design is whether it looks good in white or not, and the RS7 unquestionably does. This is... (Evan Sears/ Cars.com photo)

Many elegant new cars will be on display at the Chicago Auto Show next month and in dealer showrooms later this year. Cars.com editors Aaron Bragman, Mike Hanley, David Thomas and Joe Wiesenfelder scored new model introductions at this week's opening of the Detroit auto show.